Chrissy Metz Gossip

This Is Us premiered last night. We are now in season three of the show I have hailed as the best drama on network television. I think that’s still true but it’s going to have to fix some major problems that have plagued the show since episode one if it wants to hang on to its top spot. After a rough start to season two Full Story

Have you missed these titles? After NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation yesterday, the push to the fall premiere of Season 3 of This Is Us has officially started. We have a whole summer to prepare for ALL THE FEELINGS.  I almost forgot about the feelings. By now, you know I love a good cry. Full Story

God, I love a good wedding episode. The season two finale of This Is Us aptly titled The Wedding aired last night and it was a very good wedding episode. Ending this chapter with Toby and Kate’s nuptials was the obvious conclusion to a season that has been frustrating Full Story

Why do we do this to ourselves? If you’re a crier like me, the Super Bowl episode of This Is Us was not fun to watch. It was good television – if you like emotional network TV dramas –but enjoyable? Gratifying? I mean, is sobbing into your laptop fun? Then I’m having a f-cking blast right now. Full Story

Remember how the Emmys did Sterling K. Brown? I’m still shaking a clenched fist in the sky at no one in particular whispering “how dare they” because of how the Emmys wronged Sterling K. Brown last year. To recap, SKB was played off after a criminally short amount of time, thus missing the opportunity to thank his wife Full Story

HOW. DARE. THEY. There are a few things we can count on during award shows: someone is going to say something stupid (looking at you Shailene Woodley), there are going to be well-intentioned, poorly-executed Trump jokes (Melissa McCarthy was RIGHT there), and the wrong person will get the oh-so-rude musical play-off too soon. Full Story

On Friday, I opened Messenger, texted Kathleen, and proceeded to ruin her day. I’ve been thinking about This Is Us all week and I’m not the only one —their Saturday night panel at PaleyFest was packed. The show is ridiculously successful in a time when both network shows and small-stakes family dramas are supposed to be dead, so everyone’s watching. Full Story

Don’t call it a comeback. Arguably the very first article I ever wrote for LaineyGossip, on a train, no less, was about why people should love Mandy Moore (more). Then there were the dark years, and Ryan Adams, and now the promotional ads for This Is Us that ran between segments of the Globes tonight called the show an ‘obsession’. Full Story

First up: there are spoilers ahead. It is hard to talk about this show without revealing plotlines because… well, there’s major spoilers below. You’ve been warned. We are three episodes into This Is Us, which Lainey has been writing about since May Full Story